Search Result:smothering
Overview of verb smother
The verb smother has 5 senses
- smother, surround -- (envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy")
- smother, asphyxiate, suffocate -- (deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor")
- smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress -- (conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn")
- smother -- (form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake")
- smother, put out -- (deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires")
Overview of adj smothering
The adj smothering has 1 sense
- smothering, suffocating, suffocative -- (causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless")